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(ANSA-AFP) - HATAYA, FEB 7 - Rescuers in Turkey and Syria
braved freezing darkness, aftershocks and collapsing buildings
Tuesday, as they dug for survivors buried by a string of
earthquakes that killed at least 4,800 people. Disaster agencies
said several thousand buildings were flattened in cities across
a vast border region -- pouring misery on an area already
plagued by war, insurgency, refugee crises and a recent cholera
outbreak. Through the night, survivors used their bare hands to
pick over the twisted ruins of multi-storey apartment blocks --
trying to save family, friends and anyone else sleeping inside
when the first massive 7.8-magnitude quake struck early Monday.
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